The most wonderful time of the year is when it becomes socially acceptable for me to drink eggnog flavored tea every morning again.

Eggnogg’n by Bigelow. Imagine someone mixed black tea with green tea and then mixed that with eggnog flavor and cinnamon. Then imagine that somehow that actually worked and came out tasting pretty good because it doesn’t sound like it would.

Yeah… that’s what’s going on in my mouth right now.

I have recently realized that Bigelow makes all of my favor flavors of tea. I hesitate to tell you how many boxes of their tea are in my house right now. Let’s just say I shouldn’t run out anytime soon…

What’s your favorite seasonal beverage?

I have a lot of music. I used to listen to the radio just about 24/7 but now we live next to this big hill that prevents us from getting a radio signal (seriously, it’s really annoying). Working from home, alone, I really need to listen to music at all times in order to properly function. I download indie artists I’ve never heard of when they offer their albums for free. I download the free songs on Amazon. I ripped every CD in this house to MP3 (and we have a TON). I’m not picky. I just like music.

I do  listen to internet radio a lot as well. But I can only hear the same commercials on Pandora and Yahoo Radio in a row before I want to kill people. Also, there are many times during the day when I cannot spare the bandwidth for internet radio because I’m doing something  online that needs it all.

But, as I’m sure is a common issue for the iPod generation, I started to run into a problem with how to listen to all this. See, I’m one of those people that obsessively listens to their favorite song of the minute  over and over and over again and, while this makes me happy, it meant that I really didn’t listen to most of my song collection. I enjoy the random thrill of a song I used to love in high school popping into the playlist between my new favorites but true random shuffle wasn’t working for me because it was repeating songs and also giving me stuff like Christmas music that I don’t want to hear year round. I also felt like there were some songs I never ever heard.

It took me several years of tweaking, but I finally found a way to play my music to my satisfaction.  Continue Reading »

I’ve been looking all over the internet and Tumblr (which is like a weird sub internet) for inspirational posters and graphics themed around NaNoWriMo to share with readers both here and over on Words Count. I found surprisingly few so I started making my own. You can see three of mine below.

Two in typical motivational poster style…

And one that’s a parody of the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Tolerate and Love meme which I cannot find anywhere to link to that is not horrible so here’s the Google results for it if you aren’t familiar.

I don’t really like this one but there are so few of these I wanted to share it as well:

I also found this one which is a little hard to read.

I want to credit that one but the font is so small I can’t even read the URL in the watermark.

Anyway, I was hoping that there would be more images out there so I turn to you. Have you found or created an inspirational NaNoWriMo related image that you’d be willing to share? You can either upload it in the comments, link to it below or submit it over on Words Count. I’d love to feature it on both blogs!